Minus their Instagram usage, the band’s social-media presence mostly exists to get the job done when it comes to promotion. Their official website is littered with broken links. Taking to their own IG comments to offer general goings-on context is perhaps the most contemporary aspect of Crazy Town’s current form. At its peak, one of nu metal’s defining characteristics was its ultramasc tendency to cast oneself as constantly under siege, fighting the good fight against forces both institutional and unseen after multi-instrumentalist Bret “Epic” Mazur’s departure in 2017 marked the last vestiges of Crazy Town’s founding lineup (save Binzer) coming to an end, the band tacked on an “X” to the end of their name, elaborating on Instagram that the designator “symbolizes a territory that has just been won.” Not even a collab with Rivers Cuomo - who lent his guitar skills to Darkhorse single “Hurt You So Bad” in the wake of his own goodwill-murder spree following Weezer’s return from hiatus - could move the figurative needle.īetween that album and The Brimstone Sluggers, there’s been promise of albums having never materialized, from 2008’s Crazy Town Is Back to the pre– Brimstone Sluggers work-in-progress Megatron. The band’s biggest hit, 2000’s megaubiquitous “Butterfly,” also counts as their only one despite the slippery single’s cross-continental chart-topping appeal, Crazy Town never came close to replicating its success. Well, it’s actually a little more complicated than that: For most of this century - from the band’s 2002 sophomore flop Darkhorse to 2015’s comeback attempt The Brimstone Sluggers - Crazy Town has existed mostly in stasis, with factors ranging from Binzer’s struggles with drug addiction and his failed shot at a solo career to the accidental overdose of late early-era member Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein and a near-constant personnel shift featuring enough former members to repopulate the Polyphonic Spree. Making it in the music industry is hard enough for bands that manage to maintain a low level of success and attention, commercial or otherwise in their 24-year existence, front man Seth “Shifty Shellshock” Binzer and his revolving door of rap-rock compatriots haven’t come close to achieving such a level of consistency - but, nevertheless, they’ve persisted. On a basic, human level, you’d have to be cruel to sneer at Crazy Town for continuing to exist. Photo: Gary Wolstenholme/Redferns via Getty Images
Recording as Shifty, Binzer made a solo album - 2004’s Happy Love Sick - that enjoyed moderate success overseas but failed to chart in the U.S.Crazy Town on a much bigger stage than the one we’re about to talk about. The group went on an indefinite hiatus after its second album, 2002’s Darkhorse, spent just one week on the Billboard 200. The 2002 Paul Oakenfold single “Starry Eyed Surprise” included lines sung by Binzer in “Butterfly.”īut “Butterfly” was Crazy Town’s only song to hit the U.S. Buoyed by the single - which has sold 213,000 physical copies and 584,000 downloads in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan - the band’s debut album The Gift of Game reached the Top 10 and went platinum.
1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 in early 2001 with “Butterfly.” It was an international hit, reaching the Top 10 in more than a dozen countries. Drew: ‘I’m Not Addicted to Fame’Ĭrazy Town, which also featured the late DJ AM (aka Adam Goldstein), spent two weeks at No. Binzer continues to be held in the ICU at an undisclosed Los Angeles hospital. He is said to be responsive and speaking sporadically, but is not fully aware of his surroundings. Binzer has reportedly been on breathing tubes since Thursday, March 29, but had them successfully removed late Tuesday night.
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